Perceptual and spectrographic analysis of the words from the speech of children aged 5–7 years

Authors

  • Aleksey Grigoriev Saint Petersburg State University, 7–9, Universitetskaya nab., Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
  • Elena Lyakso Saint Petersburg State University, 7–9, Universitetskaya nab., Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6073-0393

Abstract

Recognition of child speech of different ages is one of the most important problems in modern biology. The purpose of this work is to study the characteristics of the perception the words of children aged 5–7 years by Russian adults. The subject of the study is the words from the speech of children aged 5–7 years, abstracted from the phrase and compiled in the test. Comprehensive analysis of the words includes perceptual and acoustic spectrographic analysis and a method of audiometry to identify hearing thresholds. Russian native speakers recognize from 48 to 55 % of children’s words contained in the test with a probability of 0.75-1.0, which is significantly less than similarly recognized words of adult speech. Significant differences in recognition of words of children aged 5, 6 and 7 years were not found. Thus, we can assume that the model of articulation of vowels is not formed by the age of 7.

Keywords:

child speech, speech recognition

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Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 3. Biology

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Published

2012-09-03

How to Cite

Grigoriev, A., & Lyakso, E. (2012). Perceptual and spectrographic analysis of the words from the speech of children aged 5–7 years. Biological Communications, (3), 79–89. Retrieved from https://biocomm.spbu.ru/article/view/3358

Issue

No. 3 (2012)

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Full communications

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Articles of Biological Communications are open access distributed under the terms of the License Agreement with Saint Petersburg State University, which permits to the authors unrestricted distribution and self-archiving free of charge.